Explaining illustrates what explanation is and what it aims to do. Exploring the various strategies open to teachers, this book offers a combination of activities and discussion points which will enable them them to build up a repertoire of techniques suitable for various situations and to evaluate the effectiveness of their explanations in the classroom. The text covers such issues as the use of an appropriate language register, the place of analogies, building on children's questions, as well as coping strategies for effective explanation when the teacher herself is unfamiliar with the subject matter.